Three Kingdoms: The Kingdom Cannot Be Partial

Chapter 32 Am I Loyal?

Shen Zheng.

Wuzhangyuan.

The sky began to grow dark.

A horseman slowly climbed up the gentle slope of the southern plateau. After reaching the flat land in the middle of the plateau, he began to gallop towards the north where the Han cavalry gathered.

Wuzhangyuan is ten miles long and over a hundred meters high. As for the place where the cavalry gathered, it is still more than ten miles away from where Liu Chan is now.

Therefore, Liu Chan, who was at the bottom of the plateau, could not see the situation on the plateau, and Zhao Guang, who went up the plateau to inform him of the news, quickly disappeared from Liu Chan's sight.

Half an hour passed quickly.

At the edge of Wuzhangyuan, the outlines of several war horses finally began to appear. They were walking slowly, not galloping.

Another moment passed.

When there were no more horses in Liu Chan's sight, some horses were ridden by people, and some horses were lying sideways by people.

So Liu Chan had no time to estimate whether there were three hundred or four hundred war horses left on the plateau, and time suddenly became extremely long.

A long quarter of an hour passed.

All the horses have left the plateau.

Finally, some Han cavalry returned to Liu Chan.

There was nothing surprising about it. He was just another bloody man with his armor covered in blood and arrows. After today's battle, Liu Chan was already used to it and even began to show no emotional fluctuations.

"Your Majesty, we failed to lure Cao's army across the river. Please punish us!"

The Tiger Cavalry Sima named Huang Chong, who was appointed by Liu Chan himself, bowed down and burst into tears when he saw Liu Chan. He was obviously very frustrated that the Tiger Cavalry failed to complete the mission.

"That's alright. I already suspected we wouldn't be able to lure them here. The soldiers have already fulfilled their mission by stopping the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry in Weibei!"

The emperor said this and stepped forward to help Huang Chong up, patting him lightly on the shoulder as usual.

He subconsciously reached out his hand again and touched the fourteen or fifteen broken arrows that were deeply embedded in the man's armor and even flesh. His fingers trembled slightly, almost imperceptibly.

So the bland, insincere words like "Thank you for your hard work, soldiers" that were on the tip of my tongue could not be said in the end.

The father of this Tiger Cavalry Sima was the former General Zhenbei of the Han Dynasty, the current Governor of Yizhou of the Wei Dynasty, and the future General Chariots and Cavalry of the Wei Dynasty. He was the first person in Chinese history to be awarded the honor of Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and his name was Huang Quan.

In fact, Adou himself had some special feelings for the son of this surrendered general.

Just like what Zhaolie said back then:
I have let Huang Quan down, but Quan has not let me down.

Adou also inherited this complex emotion.

However, in Adou's memory, the son of Huang Quan seemed to feel ashamed and refused to accept the various rewards awarded by Adou. He almost never interacted with the children of court officials. He only went to court to listen to affairs and stayed behind closed doors when he returned.

On the day of the expedition, the man was on leave, so Liu Chan went to the old mansion in Zhenbei to select him to join the expedition, thinking that the son of the surrendered general would probably die for him.

As expected, the man agreed loudly, and the dozen or so broken arrows on his body at this moment proved his loyalty to the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

"How many of our soldiers died?" Liu Chan finally asked a practical question.

Huang Chong choked up again when he heard this:

"Your Majesty... One hundred and eighty-two killed in action, forty seriously injured!"

Liu Chan was silent.

Nearly 50% of the people were killed or injured.

"Your Majesty, I...I am guilty! Please punish me!" Before Liu Chan could come to his senses, the Tiger Cavalry Sima suddenly knelt down on the ground and burst into tears again.

Liu Chan was stunned again.

After a moment, he asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Huang Chong burst into tears and sobbed: "The Tiger Cavalry is guarding him...he..."

"What's wrong with him?" Liu Chan suddenly had a bad premonition.

"He's dying... Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please go and see him! I'm guilty. I failed to protect the Tiger Cavalry Prison. Please punish me, Your Majesty!"

After saying this, Huang Chong knelt down again.

According to the military regulations, if a captain dies, his Sima will be beheaded; if a Sima dies, his military officer will be beheaded; if a military officer dies, his Dubo will be beheaded; if a Dubo dies, his team leader will be beheaded.

However, the cavalry did not have this system.

Because cavalry leaders were often the first to charge into battle and were easily killed, Liu Chan didn't know what Huang Chong had done wrong. He just subconsciously asked, "Where is he?"

As a time traveler, he only inherited part of Adou's memories, but did not inherit Adou's feelings for the people around him. He cannot be said to have any deep feelings for this cousin.

But no matter what, after more than ten days of contact, he barely felt a sense of closeness, and she could be considered the first friend he, a time traveler, made in this new world.

Anyone who hears that a new friend suddenly passes away will probably feel the same as he does now, with his mind suddenly confused, right?
So, when Liu Chan's consciousness returned to his brain again, he found that he had followed Huang Chong through the numerous military formations and came to Mi Wei without knowing when.

In fact, some strange thoughts just emerged in his mind:
If I were a qualified politician, then with so many Tiger Riders either seriously injured or dead, shouldn't I come to see this royal relative first, but instead pretend to comfort the other seriously injured Tiger Riders?
Yet he arrived here first.

Originally, he thought that the fourteen or fifteen broken arrows on Huang Chong's armor were horrifying enough.

When he saw the Tiger Cavalry Inspector lying face down on his horse with his entire back shot out like a hedgehog, making it difficult to tell whether he was a human or a hedgehog, he was completely stunned.

——Is this really a human?

No words could describe his shock and horror at the moment. Only he, the person involved, could understand the impact of the scene.

He was confused.

How could someone who was still alive a few days ago become like this?
——Is this really a human?

With doubts in his mind, he slowly squatted down.

Looking at the broken arrow on the man's back, he wanted to reach out and touch it, but he didn't dare to.

"Power..." He hesitated, then hesitated, finally unsure what to say. In the Chengdu palace, he could calmly formulate his words, leaving Dong Yun and Jiang Wan speechless and dumbfounded.

In the military camp a few days ago, he could calmly compose good speeches to make the soldiers passionate and excited.

But after today's battle, he was unable to utter a word several times.

There were probably thirty or forty broken arrows hanging on the armor on the back of Mi Wei, starting from his shoulders, to his broad back, to his waist, or rather, his waist, to his thighs, calves, and finally to his...

Liu Chan was stunned.

"Feet...where are my feet?" He asked in a daze, not knowing who he was asking.

The person in front of me is almost impossible to tell whether he is a human or a hedgehog, almost impossible to tell whether he is dead or alive. Let's just call him a human. From the calf to the right foot, there is nothing but a neat and horrifying bloody cross section.

"Your Majesty...The Tiger Cavalry Supervisor...The Tiger Cavalry Supervisor dismounted and shot arrows, but was caught up by the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry..." Huang Chong stopped talking here.

There was no need to explain, anyone could see what had happened.

Staring at the bloody broken body wrapped in a piece of linen, Liu Chan's mind went blank.

At this moment, a weak and faint cough came from around his knee. He suddenly came to his senses and soon heard the hedgehog general mumbling something.

He quickly leaned over to listen.

However, no sound was heard for a long time.

He began to wonder if he had heard wrongly.

After a long time, he stood up, but the moment he stood up, the faint mumbling sound came again.

He hurriedly leaned over again, carefully put his ear to the person's head, and listened attentively with bated breath.

"Your Majesty..."

Liu Chan was shocked, he was indeed talking!
"Your Majesty...is that you?"

"Yes, it's me!" Liu Chan answered forcefully, as if afraid that he couldn't hear him.

However, after answering, there was another long silence between the two.

He continued to listen hard, and after waiting for about twenty or thirty breaths, he finally heard Mi Wei's voice again.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

"I'm here, I'm here," Liu Chan replied hastily, fearing that if he spoke too slowly, the man before him wouldn't even be able to leave a last word. "Just tell me what you want, and I'll satisfy whatever I can!"

Mi Wei's weak voice came: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty wants nothing."

Liu Chan was stunned.

But then he heard Mi Wei's voice again.

"Your Majesty, I just want to ask you."

"What do you want to ask? Ask, ask." Liu Chan was in a daze. It was the first time for him to face the life and death of someone he was familiar with and close to at such a close distance. He really didn't know what to do.

He didn't have to wait too long before Mi Wei's extremely weak voice came.

Liu Chan was too angry to speak out.

"Your Majesty... I just want to ask Your Majesty... I, Mi, am I loyal?" His question was extremely weak and powerless.

Liu Chan, who was still confused, was suddenly shocked. After a moment, he hurriedly agreed: "Loyalty! Loyalty! Anyone who dares to say that Mi is disloyal will be killed by me!"

His voice caused the dust to scatter.

However, it seemed that the question just now had exhausted Mi Wei's last strength. His whole body sank down suddenly, and then became motionless, without even a trace of ups and downs.

Liu Chan's mind went blank again.

The world seemed to have become quiet.

After a long time, Liu Chan stood up.

He was not sure what he was thinking or feeling at the moment. A confused and drowsy feeling filled his brain, making him completely unable to think.

"Your Majesty, you...you won't even cry for me?"

Suddenly, a completely unexpected voice brought him back to reality from his dazed state. His hair stood on end, his eyes widened, and he quickly squatted down, kneeling directly on the ground. "What? What did you just say?"

"Your Majesty...I...I am not dead yet. I was just joking with Your Majesty.

"I...I think...I can still be saved."

At this moment, Mi Wei's voice seemed to be a little more lively than before.

Liu Chan's scalp tightened and he roared:

"Call the military doctor!

"Call the best military doctors for me... No, no, no, call all the military doctors for me!"

The people around hurriedly scattered.

Mi Wei muttered.

Liu Chan, who was kneeling on the ground, hurriedly put his ear close to the man's head, fearing that this might be Mi Wei's last breath and afraid of missing his last words. He was also worried that even if he could survive now, he would probably get tetanus with such a serious injury.

"Your Majesty, I...I was actually wearing two layers of heavy armor. Most of these arrows only hit my skin and flesh, so I shouldn't be fatal.

"I just lost one of my legs, and I don't know if I can still ride a horse in the future.

"But at least I have both hands, so I should still be able to shoot. Your Majesty, please tie me to your horse, and I will be able to kill... kill the bandits for you!"

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